W dniu 2012-03-12 03:38, Rick McCallister pisze:
> For those of you tired of arguing over the same old thing, here's
> something new to argue about: badgers.
> My 2 cents: Isn't there a Gaelic term taigh (vek sim.) for "badger" that
> also comes from *tek'-?
> French, of course, has blaireau and Spanish has tejón --which I'm sure
> one of our friends will shortly link both to Vasco-Tasmanian or whatever.
Badgers were discussed on Cybalist as early as the end of the previous
millennium:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/4398
I think Joshua Katz's badger article (1998, "Hittite tas^ku- and the
Indo-European Word for 'Badger'", _Historische Sprachforschung_ 111,
61–82, based on his UCLA conference paper) is still the last word on the
subject. At any rate, Katz's analysis militates against the
traditionally postulated connection between PGmc. *þaxsu- etc. and
*tetk^- 'build'. Not the builder of setts, but rather the owner of
smelly glands.
Piotr